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Dawson126:
Thank you.

Are you a cowpea farmer or you're looking forward to being one?

You are welcome Brov. I am a newbie in the cowpea farming business. Incidentally I planted my first set of cowpea seeds in the first week of September almost same time you planted the ones you are showing on this thread. Like I mentioned I have gained much insight from your posts so far and its helping me to take the right decisions. Thanks once again. Here are the pictures of the two varieties i planted:
What are your views observations and suggestions?

Dawson126:
5. Weed management

We all know weed compete with crops for all necessities they need to do well. On this I'm not too good due to my busy schedule, right now I'm towards the North Central for field work but I surely do have some kind of perception or lemme say judgement when weeding is necessary and could affect my cowpea.

Cowpea does not have good weed competition ability. When it comes to competing with weeds, na lazy crop.

One of the issues of cowpea production is weeding. This is because selective herbicides for cowpea are still under experiments and not much are already in market, therefore you would have to do manual weeding.

Would you now avail yourself to allow your cowpea grow leaves excessively at the cost of effort of weeding? Hell NO. You'd want them to fruit as early as possible to reduce this!

That us why it is necessary too.

Great job. Quite insightful